Serious Progess Re: smbios.ko probes successfully if i disable acpi sysresource, fails if i do not

John Utz john at utzweb.net
Thu Nov 2 04:18:35 UTC 2006


On Nov 1, 2006, at 7:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:47, john at utzweb.net wrote:
>>
>> So i actually do use pmap_mapdev to get a handle to the table, but  
>> i dont
>> do that in smbios_attach, i do it in a function written to walk  
>> the table.
>>
>> but, as i alluded to previously, the original author used
>> bus_alloc_resource() in smbios_attach() are you saying that i  
>> should use
>> pmap_mapdev() in smbios_attach *instead* of bus_alloc_resource()?
>
> Yes.  Firmware tables are not resources (at least IMHO).

ok then.

so since pmap_mapdev() returns a void* what is the current blessed  
type that should be used for pmap_ memory handles in smbios_softc?

i saw something char*-ish in digi_isa.c, but i saw few enuf examples  
that it seems  to be worth asking....

tnx!

johnu

> -- 
> John Baldwin
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